July 2005
The major problem facing Africa is corruption and control of resources. In theDRC, the military is stealing minerals to sell to Western companies.
At a remote mine in central DRC, workers with torches and pick axes hack at the ruddy earth. They are mining cassiterite, a mineral vital in the production of laptops and mobile phones. But dispersed among the miners are Congolese Government troops -- in plain clothes for the camera -- literally forcing most workers to work at gunpoint. 'The soldiers always steal everything. They even come to shoot people down the mineshafts,' complains Regina Maponda. Western greed for cassiterite is fuelling the boom -- at an airfield near the mine, soldiers jealously guard their loot as it makes it way to Japan and the West. Conflict mining is a curse, and it is difficult to see what the G8 leaders can do.

I love this song ...
For more great songs visit my website with carefuly selected songs.
ivischannel.de.tl
Mama was queen of the mambo
Papa was king of the CongoDeep down in the jungle
I start bangin' my first bongo
Every monkey'd like to be
In my place instead of me
Cause I'm the king of bongo, baby
I'm the king of bongo bong
I went to the big town
Where there is a lot of sound
From the jungle to the city
Looking for a bigger crown
So I play my boogie
For the people of big city
But they don't go crazy
When I'm bangin' in my boogie
I'm the (king of the bongo, king of the bongo bong)
Hear me when I come baby
(King of the bongo, king of the bongo bong)
Nobody'd like to be in my place instead of me
Cause nobody go crazy when I'm bangin' on my boogie
I'm a king without a crown hanging loose in a big town
But I'm the king of bongo baby I'm the king of bongo bong
(King of the bongo, king of the bongo bong)
Hear me when I come, baby,
(king of the bongo, king of the bongo bong)
They say that I'm a clown
Making too much dirty sound
They say there is no place for little monkey in this town
Nobody'd like to be in my place instead of me
Cause nobody go crazy when I'm bangin' on my boogie
I'm the (king of the bongo, king of the bongo bong)
Hear me when I come, baby
(King of the bongo, king of the bongo bong)
Hear me when I come
Bangin' on my bongo all that swing belongs to me
I'm so happy there's nobody in my place instead of me
I'm a king without a crown hanging loose in a big town
I'm the king of bongo baby I'm the king of bongo bong
(King of the bongo, king of the bongo bong)
Hear me when I come, baby
(king of the bongo, king of the bongo bong)

In the Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern town of Goma, childhood is a luxury few can afford.
This region has been in the crossfire of armed groups for decades, and even though war here has officially ended, insecurity is still rife.
Arson Misuba was born in 1999; conceived during the first of many wars that would devastate the country's east in the aftermath of Mobutu's three decades in power.
Now 17, he has been witness to years of conflict, even if he never had to fight. He also hasn't been to school in years; the family has no money to educate him.
Instead, he makes music. Very occasionally he is paid to play, but most days he comes here, to Goma's Don Bosco, to play and sing and dance with the children who live and go to school here.
"I sing for the children, because I have seen that in Africa, children are suffering a lot, just like I am suffering," Misuba explains. "That's why I sing, because of the children, in the hope that in future things will change, and they will give children their respect."
There are four million children who have lost at least one parent in the DRC â€“ a country of 80 million peopleâ€“ and many more children who bear the scars of war or have nowhere to go.
These children have grown up amid conflict fuelled by ethnic strife and the fight over valuable minerals. The violence and displacement are eroding the tradition of families being able to care for their own.
The breakdown in family means some orphans are forced to look after themselves and their younger siblings. Some are vulnerable to recruitment by armed groups. Many also face sexual exploitation, in a country where rape has become commonplace on the streets.
Seventeen-year-old Jeannette Umutsi has a family home, but she says she can't go back. She was raised by her mother and father â€“ but when her mother died and could no longer protect her, she had to leave.
"He was holding a machete wanting to kill me," she says of her father. "I ran away to our neighbour's house."
"He went and told the police that he was going to kill me if I did not leave the house, because I was not his child."
En AvantLes Enfants INUKA center in Goma gave her a home, and for the first time in as long as she could remember, she could live without fear and discover her own creativity and interests.
In anticipation of our visit, she decorated her bed with fashion catalogue cuttings â€“ representing her dream of becoming a designer â€“ and fresh flowers. But the memories of what happened to her are still raw.
"My father abused us a lot after mother died," she remembers, shaking with tears. "Every time I think about it, it makes my heart ache inside."
Jeannette's mother died of an illness after giving birth to her brother Shukuru, now five-years-old, who lives with her at INUKA center in Goma.
Jeannette blames the war for her mother's inability to get medical help when she needed it most.
Visit the AP website to read the full story, and for more about AP Archive and how to licence our footage for commercial use: http://tinyurl.com/neh3pb4
Story number for this item is: 4068292

published:05 Dec 2016

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Help Congolese musician John Bashengezi dedicate his song "Lonely Women" to the struggle of ending rape as a weapon of war in Congo.
Just pick out a few lyrics from the song and express them in your own way, in either a photo or video.
Visit www.voacongostory.com to learn more and submit your part of the music video.

Daylight

Daylight, or the light of day, is the combination of all direct and indirect sunlight during the daytime. This includes direct sunlight, diffuse sky radiation, and (often) both of these reflected from the Earth and terrestrial objects. Sunlight scattered or reflected from objects in outer space (that is, beyond the Earth's atmosphere) is not generally considered daylight. Thus, moonlight is never considered daylight, despite being "indirect sunlight". Daytime is the period of time each day when daylight occurs. Daylight happens because the earth rotates and either side the sun shines on is considered daylight.

Definition

Daylight is present at a particular location, to some degree, whenever the sun is above the horizon at that location. (This is true for slightly more than 50% of the Earth at any given time. For an explanation of why it is not exactly half, see here). However, the outdoor illuminance can vary from 120,000 lux for direct sunlight at noon, which may cause eye pain, to less than 5 lux for thick storm clouds with the sun at the horizon (even <1 lux for the most extreme case), which may make shadows from distant street lights visible. It may be darker under unusual circumstances such as a solar eclipse or very high levels of atmospheric smoke (See New England's Dark Day), dust, or volcanic ash.

King Of...

King Of... was a television comedy talk show made by Big Talk Productions for Channel 4. It was first broadcast on 17 June 2011 and was hosted by Claudia Winkleman. The show featured two celebrity guests per episode and a studio audience. The guests discussed what is the 'king of' various categories.

On 24 June 2011, Channel 4 announced that King Of... was to be cut short due to Winkleman's pregnancy. The final 2 episodes, with Ruby Wax & Johnny Vegas and Billie Piper, were not recorded.

The Congolese Civil Wars, which began in 1996, brought about the end of Mobutu Sese Seko's 31-year reign and devastated the country. The wars ultimately involved nine African nations, multiple groups of UN peacekeepers and twenty armed groups, and resulted in the deaths of 5.4 million people.

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a luozi pick nick au fleuve congo

15:35

Grand Theft Congo - DRC

Grand Theft Congo - DRC

Grand Theft Congo - DRC

July 2005
The major problem facing Africa is corruption and control of resources. In theDRC, the military is stealing minerals to sell to Western companies.
At a remote mine in central DRC, workers with torches and pick axes hack at the ruddy earth. They are mining cassiterite, a mineral vital in the production of laptops and mobile phones. But dispersed among the miners are Congolese Government troops -- in plain clothes for the camera -- literally forcing most workers to work at gunpoint. 'The soldiers always steal everything. They even come to shoot people down the mineshafts,' complains Regina Maponda. Western greed for cassiterite is fuelling the boom -- at an airfield near the mine, soldiers jealously guard their loot as it makes it way to Japan and the West. Conflict mining is a curse, and it is difficult to see what the G8 leaders can do.

Congo Ashanti Youthman

Manu Chao-Bongo Bong(great song)

I love this song ...
For more great songs visit my website with carefuly selected songs.
ivischannel.de.tl
Mama was queen of the mambo
Papa was king of the CongoDeep down in the jungle
I start bangin' my first bongo
Every monkey'd like to be
In my place instead of me
Cause I'm the king of bongo, baby
I'm the king of bongo bong
I went to the big town
Where there is a lot of sound
From the jungle to the city
Looking for a bigger crown
So I play my boogie
For the people of big city
But they don't go crazy
When I'm bangin' in my boogie
I'm the (king of the bongo, king of the bongo bong)
Hear me when I come baby
(King of the bongo, king of the bongo bong)
Nobody'd like to be in my place instead of me
Cause nobody go crazy when I'm bangin' on my boogie
I'm a king without a crown hanging loose in a big town
But I'm the king of bongo baby I'm the king of bongo bong
(King of the bongo, king of the bongo bong)
Hear me when I come, baby,
(king of the bongo, king of the bongo bong)
They say that I'm a clown
Making too much dirty sound
They say there is no place for little monkey in this town
Nobody'd like to be in my place instead of me
Cause nobody go crazy when I'm bangin' on my boogie
I'm the (king of the bongo, king of the bongo bong)
Hear me when I come, baby
(King of the bongo, king of the bongo bong)
Hear me when I come
Bangin' on my bongo all that swing belongs to me
I'm so happy there's nobody in my place instead of me
I'm a king without a crown hanging loose in a big town
I'm the king of bongo baby I'm the king of bongo bong
(King of the bongo, king of the bongo bong)
Hear me when I come, baby
(king of the bongo, king of the bongo bong)

In the Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern town of Goma, childhood is a luxury few can afford.
This region has been in the crossfire of armed groups for decades, and even though war here has officially ended, insecurity is still rife.
Arson Misuba was born in 1999; conceived during the first of many wars that would devastate the country's east in the aftermath of Mobutu's three decades in power.
Now 17, he has been witness to years of conflict, even if he never had to fight. He also hasn't been to school in years; the family has no money to educate him.
Instead, he makes music. Very occasionally he is paid to play, but most days he comes here, to Goma's Don Bosco, to play and sing and dance with the children who live and go to school here.
"I sing for the children, because I have seen that in Africa, children are suffering a lot, just like I am suffering," Misuba explains. "That's why I sing, because of the children, in the hope that in future things will change, and they will give children their respect."
There are four million children who have lost at least one parent in the DRC â€“ a country of 80 million peopleâ€“ and many more children who bear the scars of war or have nowhere to go.
These children have grown up amid conflict fuelled by ethnic strife and the fight over valuable minerals. The violence and displacement are eroding the tradition of families being able to care for their own.
The breakdown in family means some orphans are forced to look after themselves and their younger siblings. Some are vulnerable to recruitment by armed groups. Many also face sexual exploitation, in a country where rape has become commonplace on the streets.
Seventeen-year-old Jeannette Umutsi has a family home, but she says she can't go back. She was raised by her mother and father â€“ but when her mother died and could no longer protect her, she had to leave.
"He was holding a machete wanting to kill me," she says of her father. "I ran away to our neighbour's house."
"He went and told the police that he was going to kill me if I did not leave the house, because I was not his child."
En AvantLes Enfants INUKA center in Goma gave her a home, and for the first time in as long as she could remember, she could live without fear and discover her own creativity and interests.
In anticipation of our visit, she decorated her bed with fashion catalogue cuttings â€“ representing her dream of becoming a designer â€“ and fresh flowers. But the memories of what happened to her are still raw.
"My father abused us a lot after mother died," she remembers, shaking with tears. "Every time I think about it, it makes my heart ache inside."
Jeannette's mother died of an illness after giving birth to her brother Shukuru, now five-years-old, who lives with her at INUKA center in Goma.
Jeannette blames the war for her mother's inability to get medical help when she needed it most.
Visit the AP website to read the full story, and for more about AP Archive and how to licence our footage for commercial use: http://tinyurl.com/neh3pb4
Story number for this item is: 4068292

0:15

Congo Story: 'Lonely' music video clip Lamia

Congo Story: 'Lonely' music video clip Lamia

Congo Story: 'Lonely' music video clip Lamia

Help Congolese musician John Bashengezi dedicate his song "Lonely Women" to the struggle of ending rape as a weapon of war in Congo.
Just pick out a few lyrics from the song and express them in your own way, in either a photo or video.
Visit www.voacongostory.com to learn more and submit your part of the music video.

Congo Story: 'Lonely' music video clip Khalil

Help Congolese musician John Bashengezi dedicate his song "Lonely Women" to the struggle of ending rape as a weapon of war in Congo.
Just pick out a few lyrics from the song and express them in your own way, in either a photo or video.
Visit www.voacongostory.com to learn more and submit your part of the music video.

2:43

Science Bulletins: Congo River

Science Bulletins: Congo River

Science Bulletins: Congo River

New technologies are making it easier for scientists to map bodies of water such as the meandering lower Congo River in Africa. By programming computers to pick out water features that characterize individual habitats in satellite images, scientists can better understand how habitat plays a role in the migration and evolution of fish species in the Congo.

Congo pinball Machine

You know sometimes you watch a film and think "the book was better" well in this case the pinball is better! I like Congo, I owned one years ago and never should have sold it. They aren't very common in the UK so I was lucky to pick this one up. Great quality of sound and clips and a very fast flowing game, lets face it, any game that fires balls out of a volcano has got to be good!

a luozi pick nick au fleuve congo

a luozi pick nick au fleuve congo

published: 12 Aug 2015

Grand Theft Congo - DRC

July 2005
The major problem facing Africa is corruption and control of resources. In theDRC, the military is stealing minerals to sell to Western companies.
At a remote mine in central DRC, workers with torches and pick axes hack at the ruddy earth. They are mining cassiterite, a mineral vital in the production of laptops and mobile phones. But dispersed among the miners are Congolese Government troops -- in plain clothes for the camera -- literally forcing most workers to work at gunpoint. 'The soldiers always steal everything. They even come to shoot people down the mineshafts,' complains Regina Maponda. Western greed for cassiterite is fuelling the boom -- at an airfield near the mine, soldiers jealously guard their loot as it makes it way to Japan and the West. Conflict mining is...

Congo movie clips: http://j.mp/15vV7pS
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CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Karen (Laura Linney) mops up the gorilla problem with a laser just before the volcano erupts.
FILM DESCRIPTION:
Good gorillas meet bad gorillas while human beings search for treasure in this jungle advnture saga. R.B.Travis (Joe Don Baker) is the ruthless head of Travi-Com, a telecommunications firm on the cusp of a major breakthrough in laser communications technology. However, Travis needs diamonds to finish the project, so he sends a group of men to Zaire, where he's told that a large supply of the gems can be easily found. When the men go missing, Travis sends his trusted assistant Karen Ross (Laura Linney), a one-time CIA associate...

published: 29 Nov 2011

Congo Ashanti Youthman

Manu Chao-Bongo Bong(great song)

I love this song ...
For more great songs visit my website with carefuly selected songs.
ivischannel.de.tl
Mama was queen of the mambo
Papa was king of the CongoDeep down in the jungle
I start bangin' my first bongo
Every monkey'd like to be
In my place instead of me
Cause I'm the king of bongo, baby
I'm the king of bongo bong
I went to the big town
Where there is a lot of sound
From the jungle to the city
Looking for a bigger crown
So I play my boogie
For the people of big city
But they don't go crazy
When I'm bangin' in my boogie
I'm the (king of the bongo, king of the bongo bong)
Hear me when I come baby
(King of the bongo, king of the bongo bong)
Nobody'd like to be in my place instead of me
Cause nobody go crazy when I'm bangin' on my boogie
I'm a king without a crown hanging l...

Congo- Who Said l Shot By @SavageFilms91

In the Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern town of Goma, childhood is a luxury few can afford.
This region has been in the crossfire of armed groups for decades, and even though war here has officially ended, insecurity is still rife.
Arson Misuba was born in 1999; conceived during the first of many wars that would devastate the country's east in the aftermath of Mobutu's three decades in power.
Now 17, he has been witness to years of conflict, even if he never had to fight. He also hasn't been to school in years; the family has no money to educate him.
Instead, he makes music. Very occasionally he is paid to play, but most days he comes here, to Goma's Don Bosco, to play and sing and dance with the children who live and go to school here.
"I sing for the children, because I have s...

published: 05 Dec 2016

Congo Story: 'Lonely' music video clip Lamia

Help Congolese musician John Bashengezi dedicate his song "Lonely Women" to the struggle of ending rape as a weapon of war in Congo.
Just pick out a few lyrics from the song and express them in your own way, in either a photo or video.
Visit www.voacongostory.com to learn more and submit your part of the music video.

Congo Story: 'Lonely' music video clip Khalil

Help Congolese musician John Bashengezi dedicate his song "Lonely Women" to the struggle of ending rape as a weapon of war in Congo.
Just pick out a few lyrics from the song and express them in your own way, in either a photo or video.
Visit www.voacongostory.com to learn more and submit your part of the music video.

published: 18 Mar 2012

Science Bulletins: Congo River

New technologies are making it easier for scientists to map bodies of water such as the meandering lower Congo River in Africa. By programming computers to pick out water features that characterize individual habitats in satellite images, scientists can better understand how habitat plays a role in the migration and evolution of fish species in the Congo.

Congo pinball Machine

You know sometimes you watch a film and think "the book was better" well in this case the pinball is better! I like Congo, I owned one years ago and never should have sold it. They aren't very common in the UK so I was lucky to pick this one up. Great quality of sound and clips and a very fast flowing game, lets face it, any game that fires balls out of a volcano has got to be good!

July 2005
The major problem facing Africa is corruption and control of resources. In theDRC, the military is stealing minerals to sell to Western companies.
At a remote mine in central DRC, workers with torches and pick axes hack at the ruddy earth. They are mining cassiterite, a mineral vital in the production of laptops and mobile phones. But dispersed among the miners are Congolese Government troops -- in plain clothes for the camera -- literally forcing most workers to work at gunpoint. 'The soldiers always steal everything. They even come to shoot people down the mineshafts,' complains Regina Maponda. Western greed for cassiterite is fuelling the boom -- at an airfield near the mine, soldiers jealously guard their loot as it makes it way to Japan and the West. Conflict mining is a curse, and it is difficult to see what the G8 leaders can do.

July 2005
The major problem facing Africa is corruption and control of resources. In theDRC, the military is stealing minerals to sell to Western companies.
At a remote mine in central DRC, workers with torches and pick axes hack at the ruddy earth. They are mining cassiterite, a mineral vital in the production of laptops and mobile phones. But dispersed among the miners are Congolese Government troops -- in plain clothes for the camera -- literally forcing most workers to work at gunpoint. 'The soldiers always steal everything. They even come to shoot people down the mineshafts,' complains Regina Maponda. Western greed for cassiterite is fuelling the boom -- at an airfield near the mine, soldiers jealously guard their loot as it makes it way to Japan and the West. Conflict mining is a curse, and it is difficult to see what the G8 leaders can do.

Manu Chao-Bongo Bong(great song)

I love this song ...
For more great songs visit my website with carefuly selected songs.
ivischannel.de.tl
Mama was queen of the mambo
Papa was king of the C...

I love this song ...
For more great songs visit my website with carefuly selected songs.
ivischannel.de.tl
Mama was queen of the mambo
Papa was king of the CongoDeep down in the jungle
I start bangin' my first bongo
Every monkey'd like to be
In my place instead of me
Cause I'm the king of bongo, baby
I'm the king of bongo bong
I went to the big town
Where there is a lot of sound
From the jungle to the city
Looking for a bigger crown
So I play my boogie
For the people of big city
But they don't go crazy
When I'm bangin' in my boogie
I'm the (king of the bongo, king of the bongo bong)
Hear me when I come baby
(King of the bongo, king of the bongo bong)
Nobody'd like to be in my place instead of me
Cause nobody go crazy when I'm bangin' on my boogie
I'm a king without a crown hanging loose in a big town
But I'm the king of bongo baby I'm the king of bongo bong
(King of the bongo, king of the bongo bong)
Hear me when I come, baby,
(king of the bongo, king of the bongo bong)
They say that I'm a clown
Making too much dirty sound
They say there is no place for little monkey in this town
Nobody'd like to be in my place instead of me
Cause nobody go crazy when I'm bangin' on my boogie
I'm the (king of the bongo, king of the bongo bong)
Hear me when I come, baby
(King of the bongo, king of the bongo bong)
Hear me when I come
Bangin' on my bongo all that swing belongs to me
I'm so happy there's nobody in my place instead of me
I'm a king without a crown hanging loose in a big town
I'm the king of bongo baby I'm the king of bongo bong
(King of the bongo, king of the bongo bong)
Hear me when I come, baby
(king of the bongo, king of the bongo bong)

I love this song ...
For more great songs visit my website with carefuly selected songs.
ivischannel.de.tl
Mama was queen of the mambo
Papa was king of the CongoDeep down in the jungle
I start bangin' my first bongo
Every monkey'd like to be
In my place instead of me
Cause I'm the king of bongo, baby
I'm the king of bongo bong
I went to the big town
Where there is a lot of sound
From the jungle to the city
Looking for a bigger crown
So I play my boogie
For the people of big city
But they don't go crazy
When I'm bangin' in my boogie
I'm the (king of the bongo, king of the bongo bong)
Hear me when I come baby
(King of the bongo, king of the bongo bong)
Nobody'd like to be in my place instead of me
Cause nobody go crazy when I'm bangin' on my boogie
I'm a king without a crown hanging loose in a big town
But I'm the king of bongo baby I'm the king of bongo bong
(King of the bongo, king of the bongo bong)
Hear me when I come, baby,
(king of the bongo, king of the bongo bong)
They say that I'm a clown
Making too much dirty sound
They say there is no place for little monkey in this town
Nobody'd like to be in my place instead of me
Cause nobody go crazy when I'm bangin' on my boogie
I'm the (king of the bongo, king of the bongo bong)
Hear me when I come, baby
(King of the bongo, king of the bongo bong)
Hear me when I come
Bangin' on my bongo all that swing belongs to me
I'm so happy there's nobody in my place instead of me
I'm a king without a crown hanging loose in a big town
I'm the king of bongo baby I'm the king of bongo bong
(King of the bongo, king of the bongo bong)
Hear me when I come, baby
(king of the bongo, king of the bongo bong)

In the Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern town of Goma, childhood is a luxury few can afford.
This region has been in the crossfire of armed groups for decades, and even though war here has officially ended, insecurity is still rife.
Arson Misuba was born in 1999; conceived during the first of many wars that would devastate the country's east in the aftermath of Mobutu's three decades in power.
Now 17, he has been witness to years of conflict, even if he never had to fight. He also hasn't been to school in years; the family has no money to educate him.
Instead, he makes music. Very occasionally he is paid to play, but most days he comes here, to Goma's Don Bosco, to play and sing and dance with the children who live and go to school here.
"I sing for the children, because I have seen that in Africa, children are suffering a lot, just like I am suffering," Misuba explains. "That's why I sing, because of the children, in the hope that in future things will change, and they will give children their respect."
There are four million children who have lost at least one parent in the DRC â€“ a country of 80 million peopleâ€“ and many more children who bear the scars of war or have nowhere to go.
These children have grown up amid conflict fuelled by ethnic strife and the fight over valuable minerals. The violence and displacement are eroding the tradition of families being able to care for their own.
The breakdown in family means some orphans are forced to look after themselves and their younger siblings. Some are vulnerable to recruitment by armed groups. Many also face sexual exploitation, in a country where rape has become commonplace on the streets.
Seventeen-year-old Jeannette Umutsi has a family home, but she says she can't go back. She was raised by her mother and father â€“ but when her mother died and could no longer protect her, she had to leave.
"He was holding a machete wanting to kill me," she says of her father. "I ran away to our neighbour's house."
"He went and told the police that he was going to kill me if I did not leave the house, because I was not his child."
En AvantLes Enfants INUKA center in Goma gave her a home, and for the first time in as long as she could remember, she could live without fear and discover her own creativity and interests.
In anticipation of our visit, she decorated her bed with fashion catalogue cuttings â€“ representing her dream of becoming a designer â€“ and fresh flowers. But the memories of what happened to her are still raw.
"My father abused us a lot after mother died," she remembers, shaking with tears. "Every time I think about it, it makes my heart ache inside."
Jeannette's mother died of an illness after giving birth to her brother Shukuru, now five-years-old, who lives with her at INUKA center in Goma.
Jeannette blames the war for her mother's inability to get medical help when she needed it most.
Visit the AP website to read the full story, and for more about AP Archive and how to licence our footage for commercial use: http://tinyurl.com/neh3pb4
Story number for this item is: 4068292

In the Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern town of Goma, childhood is a luxury few can afford.
This region has been in the crossfire of armed groups for decades, and even though war here has officially ended, insecurity is still rife.
Arson Misuba was born in 1999; conceived during the first of many wars that would devastate the country's east in the aftermath of Mobutu's three decades in power.
Now 17, he has been witness to years of conflict, even if he never had to fight. He also hasn't been to school in years; the family has no money to educate him.
Instead, he makes music. Very occasionally he is paid to play, but most days he comes here, to Goma's Don Bosco, to play and sing and dance with the children who live and go to school here.
"I sing for the children, because I have seen that in Africa, children are suffering a lot, just like I am suffering," Misuba explains. "That's why I sing, because of the children, in the hope that in future things will change, and they will give children their respect."
There are four million children who have lost at least one parent in the DRC â€“ a country of 80 million peopleâ€“ and many more children who bear the scars of war or have nowhere to go.
These children have grown up amid conflict fuelled by ethnic strife and the fight over valuable minerals. The violence and displacement are eroding the tradition of families being able to care for their own.
The breakdown in family means some orphans are forced to look after themselves and their younger siblings. Some are vulnerable to recruitment by armed groups. Many also face sexual exploitation, in a country where rape has become commonplace on the streets.
Seventeen-year-old Jeannette Umutsi has a family home, but she says she can't go back. She was raised by her mother and father â€“ but when her mother died and could no longer protect her, she had to leave.
"He was holding a machete wanting to kill me," she says of her father. "I ran away to our neighbour's house."
"He went and told the police that he was going to kill me if I did not leave the house, because I was not his child."
En AvantLes Enfants INUKA center in Goma gave her a home, and for the first time in as long as she could remember, she could live without fear and discover her own creativity and interests.
In anticipation of our visit, she decorated her bed with fashion catalogue cuttings â€“ representing her dream of becoming a designer â€“ and fresh flowers. But the memories of what happened to her are still raw.
"My father abused us a lot after mother died," she remembers, shaking with tears. "Every time I think about it, it makes my heart ache inside."
Jeannette's mother died of an illness after giving birth to her brother Shukuru, now five-years-old, who lives with her at INUKA center in Goma.
Jeannette blames the war for her mother's inability to get medical help when she needed it most.
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Congo Story: 'Lonely' music video clip Lamia

Help Congolese musician John Bashengezi dedicate his song "Lonely Women" to the struggle of ending rape as a weapon of war in Congo.
Just pick out a few lyrics...

Help Congolese musician John Bashengezi dedicate his song "Lonely Women" to the struggle of ending rape as a weapon of war in Congo.
Just pick out a few lyrics from the song and express them in your own way, in either a photo or video.
Visit www.voacongostory.com to learn more and submit your part of the music video.

Help Congolese musician John Bashengezi dedicate his song "Lonely Women" to the struggle of ending rape as a weapon of war in Congo.
Just pick out a few lyrics from the song and express them in your own way, in either a photo or video.
Visit www.voacongostory.com to learn more and submit your part of the music video.

Congo Story: 'Lonely' music video clip Khalil

Help Congolese musician John Bashengezi dedicate his song "Lonely Women" to the struggle of ending rape as a weapon of war in Congo.
Just pick out a few lyrics...

Help Congolese musician John Bashengezi dedicate his song "Lonely Women" to the struggle of ending rape as a weapon of war in Congo.
Just pick out a few lyrics from the song and express them in your own way, in either a photo or video.
Visit www.voacongostory.com to learn more and submit your part of the music video.

Help Congolese musician John Bashengezi dedicate his song "Lonely Women" to the struggle of ending rape as a weapon of war in Congo.
Just pick out a few lyrics from the song and express them in your own way, in either a photo or video.
Visit www.voacongostory.com to learn more and submit your part of the music video.

New technologies are making it easier for scientists to map bodies of water such as the meandering lower Congo River in Africa. By programming computers to pick out water features that characterize individual habitats in satellite images, scientists can better understand how habitat plays a role in the migration and evolution of fish species in the Congo.

New technologies are making it easier for scientists to map bodies of water such as the meandering lower Congo River in Africa. By programming computers to pick out water features that characterize individual habitats in satellite images, scientists can better understand how habitat plays a role in the migration and evolution of fish species in the Congo.

Congo pinball Machine

You know sometimes you watch a film and think "the book was better" well in this case the pinball is better! I like Congo, I owned one years ago and never shoul...

You know sometimes you watch a film and think "the book was better" well in this case the pinball is better! I like Congo, I owned one years ago and never should have sold it. They aren't very common in the UK so I was lucky to pick this one up. Great quality of sound and clips and a very fast flowing game, lets face it, any game that fires balls out of a volcano has got to be good!

You know sometimes you watch a film and think "the book was better" well in this case the pinball is better! I like Congo, I owned one years ago and never should have sold it. They aren't very common in the UK so I was lucky to pick this one up. Great quality of sound and clips and a very fast flowing game, lets face it, any game that fires balls out of a volcano has got to be good!

Grand Theft Congo - DRC

July 2005
The major problem facing Africa is corruption and control of resources. In theDRC, the military is stealing minerals to sell to Western companies.
At a remote mine in central DRC, workers with torches and pick axes hack at the ruddy earth. They are mining cassiterite, a mineral vital in the production of laptops and mobile phones. But dispersed among the miners are Congolese Government troops -- in plain clothes for the camera -- literally forcing most workers to work at gunpoint. 'The soldiers always steal everything. They even come to shoot people down the mineshafts,' complains Regina Maponda. Western greed for cassiterite is fuelling the boom -- at an airfield near the mine, soldiers jealously guard their loot as it makes it way to Japan and the West. Conflict mining is a curse, and it is difficult to see what the G8 leaders can do.

Manu Chao-Bongo Bong(great song)

I love this song ...
For more great songs visit my website with carefuly selected songs.
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Mama was queen of the mambo
Papa was king of the CongoDeep down in the jungle
I start bangin' my first bongo
Every monkey'd like to be
In my place instead of me
Cause I'm the king of bongo, baby
I'm the king of bongo bong
I went to the big town
Where there is a lot of sound
From the jungle to the city
Looking for a bigger crown
So I play my boogie
For the people of big city
But they don't go crazy
When I'm bangin' in my boogie
I'm the (king of the bongo, king of the bongo bong)
Hear me when I come baby
(King of the bongo, king of the bongo bong)
Nobody'd like to be in my place instead of me
Cause nobody go crazy when I'm bangin' on my boogie
I'm a king without a crown hanging loose in a big town
But I'm the king of bongo baby I'm the king of bongo bong
(King of the bongo, king of the bongo bong)
Hear me when I come, baby,
(king of the bongo, king of the bongo bong)
They say that I'm a clown
Making too much dirty sound
They say there is no place for little monkey in this town
Nobody'd like to be in my place instead of me
Cause nobody go crazy when I'm bangin' on my boogie
I'm the (king of the bongo, king of the bongo bong)
Hear me when I come, baby
(King of the bongo, king of the bongo bong)
Hear me when I come
Bangin' on my bongo all that swing belongs to me
I'm so happy there's nobody in my place instead of me
I'm a king without a crown hanging loose in a big town
I'm the king of bongo baby I'm the king of bongo bong
(King of the bongo, king of the bongo bong)
Hear me when I come, baby
(king of the bongo, king of the bongo bong)

In the Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern town of Goma, childhood is a luxury few can afford.
This region has been in the crossfire of armed groups for decades, and even though war here has officially ended, insecurity is still rife.
Arson Misuba was born in 1999; conceived during the first of many wars that would devastate the country's east in the aftermath of Mobutu's three decades in power.
Now 17, he has been witness to years of conflict, even if he never had to fight. He also hasn't been to school in years; the family has no money to educate him.
Instead, he makes music. Very occasionally he is paid to play, but most days he comes here, to Goma's Don Bosco, to play and sing and dance with the children who live and go to school here.
"I sing for the children, because I have seen that in Africa, children are suffering a lot, just like I am suffering," Misuba explains. "That's why I sing, because of the children, in the hope that in future things will change, and they will give children their respect."
There are four million children who have lost at least one parent in the DRC â€“ a country of 80 million peopleâ€“ and many more children who bear the scars of war or have nowhere to go.
These children have grown up amid conflict fuelled by ethnic strife and the fight over valuable minerals. The violence and displacement are eroding the tradition of families being able to care for their own.
The breakdown in family means some orphans are forced to look after themselves and their younger siblings. Some are vulnerable to recruitment by armed groups. Many also face sexual exploitation, in a country where rape has become commonplace on the streets.
Seventeen-year-old Jeannette Umutsi has a family home, but she says she can't go back. She was raised by her mother and father â€“ but when her mother died and could no longer protect her, she had to leave.
"He was holding a machete wanting to kill me," she says of her father. "I ran away to our neighbour's house."
"He went and told the police that he was going to kill me if I did not leave the house, because I was not his child."
En AvantLes Enfants INUKA center in Goma gave her a home, and for the first time in as long as she could remember, she could live without fear and discover her own creativity and interests.
In anticipation of our visit, she decorated her bed with fashion catalogue cuttings â€“ representing her dream of becoming a designer â€“ and fresh flowers. But the memories of what happened to her are still raw.
"My father abused us a lot after mother died," she remembers, shaking with tears. "Every time I think about it, it makes my heart ache inside."
Jeannette's mother died of an illness after giving birth to her brother Shukuru, now five-years-old, who lives with her at INUKA center in Goma.
Jeannette blames the war for her mother's inability to get medical help when she needed it most.
Visit the AP website to read the full story, and for more about AP Archive and how to licence our footage for commercial use: http://tinyurl.com/neh3pb4
Story number for this item is: 4068292

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Congo Story: 'Lonely' music video clip Lamia

Help Congolese musician John Bashengezi dedicate his song "Lonely Women" to the struggle o...

Congo Story: 'Lonely' music video clip Lamia

Help Congolese musician John Bashengezi dedicate his song "Lonely Women" to the struggle of ending rape as a weapon of war in Congo.
Just pick out a few lyrics from the song and express them in your own way, in either a photo or video.
Visit www.voacongostory.com to learn more and submit your part of the music video.

Congo Story: 'Lonely' music video clip Khalil

Help Congolese musician John Bashengezi dedicate his song "Lonely Women" to the struggle of ending rape as a weapon of war in Congo.
Just pick out a few lyrics from the song and express them in your own way, in either a photo or video.
Visit www.voacongostory.com to learn more and submit your part of the music video.

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Science Bulletins: Congo River

New technologies are making it easier for scientists to map bodies of water such as the me...

Science Bulletins: Congo River

New technologies are making it easier for scientists to map bodies of water such as the meandering lower Congo River in Africa. By programming computers to pick out water features that characterize individual habitats in satellite images, scientists can better understand how habitat plays a role in the migration and evolution of fish species in the Congo.

Congo

The term Congo may refer to two countries that border the Congo river:

Westside ' G ' Style

[Big Unc]As I ride in this Westside sunshineDuckin from the one time, while playa haters wanna straight run mineInto the ground cause they're full of hateCant stand to see a brother up and steadily pushin weightBut as long as I have breath Ima claim His nameAnd realize through the blood of Christ I can change the gameConnect thangz in a spiritual realmReject flames in a physical hellNo longer a victim of the circumstanceBeen given a key, set free, best believe we're gonna danceRr gangsta boogie, or whatever you wanna call itTweak my body to the side, up and down just like hydraulicsSo lets see if we can hop hop hop itThen drop drop drop it, when the 3rd wheel locks itAnd hit em up wit that holy g funkGet the Westside pump when your homie Big Unc dumpsUpon a track that my brotha suppliedBout to go nationwide, so lets ride to da[Chorus]Dub to the E to S T sideWestside, right rightDub to the E to S T sideG style riders ride[Big Unc]Breaker 1 9 we got a hit and runIts Big Unc on that 210 swervin and havin funRunnin over haters in life like a mac truckGotta be a playa for Christ so Satan back upIma make sure that you know when I flow I be hittin cornersFlossin on threes is how I be sittin on daytonasWit a gold cross and a herringbone on my neckKeep tha Lord upon my chest and Satan's monkeys on my backAnd everyday its seems to me to be a struggleLivin in this world of trouble got me stuck inside a concrete jungleThrowin up sets of ten I'm gettin biggerShadow boxin wit my past again not tell me how you figgaThat real Gs dont last that longIn a city wit no pity, now you know you gotta be head strongUntil that day when I see all of God's children smileIts Big Unc puttin down straight Gospo style[Chorus][Bridge]Meet me on the WestsideMeet me on the WestsideMeet me on the WestsideMeet me on the WestsideMeet me on the WestsideAnd we can slide slide slippedy slideForget about your problems and your jobbie jobAnd just sail along[Big Unc]Time to represent from that westside do or dieThat the past, son now tell me who am I [you'za gangsta]They must have told ya, Ima God's army gangsta and a front line soldierDont wear no suits, dress clothes or bow tiesKnocks on folks doors or tryin to sell bean piesInstead we're a R.A.W. breed of ChristiansRighteous Annoited Warriors on a missionFrom the most high, our heavenly father up abovePet me on this earth to show the ghetto his loveBut now some how the world has taken us as weakBecause they read the scriptures that we turn the other cheekBut we do this out of love, not because we're weakBesides the devil can't hang or even dare competeWit this heavy hard style of mineA head snipper, problem ender, knockin demons outside of timeSo make way for the holy gospo funk that I bringAnd grab your cross, save the lost and teach the world to sing